无常 (無常) wúcháng
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wúcháng
adjective
irregular
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '無常' 2; Mathews 1931 '無常', p. 25) -
wúcháng
adjective
changing frequently
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (Guoyu '無常' 1)
Contained in
- 无常鬼(無常鬼) Ghost of Impermanence
- 黑白无常(黑白無常) two deities, one short, one tall, chained together at the ankle, responsible for rewarding the good and punishing the bad
- 祸福无常(禍福無常) disaster and happiness do not follow rules; future blessings and misfortunes are unpredictable
- 出没无常(出沒無常) to appear and disappear unpredictably
- 反复无常(反覆無常) unstable; erratic; changeable; fickle
- 喜怒无常(喜怒無常) temperamental; moody
Word is mentioned most frequently in
Truncated for common words
- 卷十七 Scroll 17 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 5
- 卷三十 志第二十 刑法 Volume 30 Treatises 20: Punishment and Law Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 5
- 卷五十九 志第十一: 地理二 Volume 59 Treatises 12: Geography 2 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 5
- 卷113 官氏志九 Volume 113 Treatise 9: Official Ranks Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 5
- 卷四十 Scroll 40 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 5
- 卷108之一 禮志四之一 Volume 108a Treatise 4: Rituals 1 Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 4
- 卷四十九 王充王符仲長統列傳 Volume 49: Biographies of Wang Chong, Wang Fu, Zhongchang Tong Book of Later Han 後漢書 — count: 4
- 卷一百五十六 志第一百〇九 選舉二 Volume 156 Treatises 109: Selection and appointment of Officials 2 History of Song 宋史 — count: 4
- 卷一百三十 載記第三十 赫連勃勃 Volume 130 Records 30: Helian Bobo Book of Jin 晉書 — count: 4
- 卷九十四 列傳第八十二: 高麗 百濟 新羅 勿吉 奚 契丹 室韋 豆莫婁 地豆干 烏洛侯 流求 倭 Volume 94 Biographies 82: Goryeo, Baekje, Silla, Wuji, Xi, Khitan, Shiwei, Doumolou, Didouyu, Wuluohou, Liuqiu, Japan History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 3
Collocations
- 行无常 (行無常) 行無常 — Guanzi 管子, 兵法第十七 Chapter 17: Military Strategy — count: 5
- 国无常 (國無常) 國無常經 — Guanzi 管子, 法法第十六 Chapter 16: Fa Fa — count: 4
- 无常居 (無常居) 蘇秦家無常居 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷二十 泰族訓 Chapter 20: superior Lineage — count: 3
- 无常主 (無常主) 善無常主 — Book of Documents 尚書, 商書 咸有一德 Shang Shu - Common Possession of Pure Virtue — count: 3
- 无常仪 (無常儀) 無常儀的也 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 外儲說左上第三十二 Chapter 32: A Collection of Sayings III — count: 3
- 无常行 (無常行) 故知時者無常行 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十二 道應訓 Chapter 12: Responses of the Way — count: 3
- 官无常 (官無常) 故官無常貴 — Mozi 墨子, 卷二 尚賢上 Book 2 - Exaltation of the Virtuous I — count: 3
- 富贵无常 (富貴無常) 是以富貴無常 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷三十六 楚元王傳 Volume 36: Prince Yuan of Chu --- Liu Xiang and Liu Xin — count: 3
- 家无常 (家無常) 家無常姓 — Guanzi 管子, 法禁第十四 Chapter 14: Prohibition — count: 2
- 无常形 (無常形) 無常形 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《太史公自序》 Autobiographical Afterword of the Grand Historian — count: 2